Sunday, March 07, 2010

The non-descript dining room...

More and more, I am finding myself drawn to dining rooms where the table is stained in one shade and the dining room chairs are stained in another shade. One is darker than the other.

Like this dining room designed by Frank Babb Randolph, who happens to be the owner, and photographed by Kenneth M. Wyner (DC by Design just posted on Mr. Wyner's residential photography & his new website).

One of my many challenges in life is to think outside the box. I am also learning that my desire yearns for less of a matched look.

And this space also proves a less-matched look can be a wonderful thing.

By Caldwell-Beebe (a Virginia-based interior design firm I discovered via Things that Inspire), have inspired me with the above vignette by showing how chairs with a worn-look can complement a polished table and still look elegant.

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More and more, I am finding myself drawn to dining rooms where the table is stained in one shade and the dining room chairs are stained in another shade. One is darker than the other.

Like this dining room designed by Frank Babb Randolph, who happens to be the owner, and photographed by Kenneth M. Wyner (DC by Design just posted on Mr. Wyner's residential photography & his new website).

One of my many challenges in life is to think outside the box. I am also learning that my desire yearns for less of a matched look.

And this space also proves a less-matched look can be a wonderful thing.

By Caldwell-Beebe (a Virginia-based interior design firm I discovered via Things that Inspire), have inspired me with the above vignette by showing how chairs with a worn-look can complement a polished table and still look elegant.

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